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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING FAYP,ENT OF THE SUM OF
TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
($2,500.00) FOR THE SATISFACTION OF
A JUDM,TENT ENiULED AGAINST THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND THE CORPUS
CHRISTI JUNIOR CHAdBER OF COhIJAERCE
IN THE SUIT OF NORTON VS. CITY, NO.
42530 -D, ON THE 1 DAY OF , , 1950,
VHICH Sim? CONSTITUTES IFF PART OF SUCH
JUDCDENT NOT COVERED BY PUBLIC LIA-
BILITY INSURANCE, AND PROVIDING THAT
SAID AMOUNT SHOULD BE PAID OUT OF
CURRENT FUND NO. 102; AND rimARIIIG
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iMREAS, In the suit of Glen Horton, et al, versus
City of Corpus Christi, et al, in the 105th Judicial District
Court of Texas, Cause No. 42530 -D, the plaintiffs seek damages
of the City of Corpus Christi and the Corpus Christi Junior
Chamber of Commerce in the amount of One Hundred Five Thousand
Dollars ($105,000.); and
aHEREAS, In a trial of said cause on the 19th day of
was entered
Nay, 1950, an Agreed Judgment in full settlement of said claim
in the amount of Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($j12,500.);
and
YJH!1Re:AS, The entry of such Agreed Judgment was and is
deemed to be in the best interests of the City;
A ff, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAIPP:D BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City pay unto the plaintiffs
according to the terms of the judgment entered in said suit, the
SUM of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars (:2,500.), which consti-
tutes the amount of the judgment in excess of the limit of the
public liability insurance policy carried by the defendants, and
that said payment be made out of Current Fund No. 102.
SECTION 2. The fact that a valid and subsisting
judgment has been entered against the City of Corpus Christi and
should be paid without delay, creates a public emergency and
imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the
Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed
finally cn the day it is introduced and that such ordinance or
resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City
Council, and the 1,ayor, having declared that such emergency and
necessity exist, requesting that said Charter nde be suspended
and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date it is intro-
duced and take effect and be in full force and. effect from and
after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAIDTa.
PASSED AND APPROVE, This the day o -eYKa,
A. D, 1950. r
MAYOR
The City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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'City 'Attornef
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE MM ERS OF TEE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for
the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or
resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and
that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the
City Council; I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
i
MLYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DeForrest
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Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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vote:
The above ordinance was passed by the fol///l--
Leslie Wasserman
--o����wing
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney P. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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I certify to the City Council that the money required
for the contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure contemplated
in the above and foregoing Ordinance is in the Treasury of the City
of Corpus Christi to the credit of Amd No,
from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose.
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